Difference between revisions of "How to run xfs repair on root filesystem"

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# Reboot linux
 
# Reboot linux
 
# On boot menu, select to edit grub (usually e)
 
# On boot menu, select to edit grub (usually e)
# Into line that loads kernel, at the and add word ''single''
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# Into line that loads kernel, at the and add word ''single''. This will get us into single user mode
  This will get us into single user mode
 
 
   <pre>
 
   <pre>
 
   linux16 /vmlinuz-3.10.0-693.11.6.el7.x86_64 root=UUID=3bdc876d-248e-48e2-ac07-4ff532f6b999 ro crashkernel=auto rhgb quiet LANG=en_US.UTF-8 single
 
   linux16 /vmlinuz-3.10.0-693.11.6.el7.x86_64 root=UUID=3bdc876d-248e-48e2-ac07-4ff532f6b999 ro crashkernel=auto rhgb quiet LANG=en_US.UTF-8 single

Revision as of 21:35, 21 November 2019

  1. Reboot linux
  2. On boot menu, select to edit grub (usually e)
  3. Into line that loads kernel, at the and add word single. This will get us into single user mode
  linux16 /vmlinuz-3.10.0-693.11.6.el7.x86_64 root=UUID=3bdc876d-248e-48e2-ac07-4ff532f6b999 ro crashkernel=auto rhgb quiet LANG=en_US.UTF-8 single
  
  1. After entering password, make sure partition is in read-only mode
  mount -oremount,ro /
  
  1. Then run
  # xfs_repair -d /dev/<your_root_device>
  
  1. Reboot